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Silent Auction – Help Us Get to the UK! 🇬🇧

We’re excited to launch our Silent Auction, raising funds to help the Hamilton Civic Choir travel to the UK in June!

There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs, including a $500 tattoo voucher, a weekend stay at a Waihi Beach house, a $260 Hobbiton Movie Set voucher, restaurant vouchers, Pilates and gym memberships, golf green fees, theatre tickets, beautiful handmade crafts and artwork, and much more.

The auction opens Saturday, 5 September and closes at 5:00 PM on Sunday, 20 September — so don’t miss your chance to grab a great prize while supporting our journey to the UK!

Place your bids through GalaBid:
https://galabid.com/hccauction

Thank you for supporting Hamilton Civic Choir — and happy bidding!

7pm, Saturday, 19 September — TIAKINA TE REO WAIATA: KEEPING THE SONG ALIVE

80th Anniversary Celebration, Cambridge Town Hall

Hamilton Civic Choir has performed choral music at the highest standards since its inception in 1946. The Choir’s passion for sharing the thrill of live choral music has remained steadfast throughout its long, proud history. And indeed, this Choir enjoys a reputation as one of New Zealand’s finest, having travelled to New York in 2018, the World Choir Games in Auckland in 2024, and recently being invited to London in 2027. 

With 2026 marking our 80th Anniversary, we bring you a celebratory concert- Tiakina Te Reo Waiata- Keeping the Song Alive.  Sharing a range of the choir’s favourites.  Repertoire ranging from the 1800s to today, bringing you Brahms, Bruckner, Mendelssohn through Peter Angeła, Ola Gjeilo, Stroope, NZ composers Robert Wiremu and Takerei Komene and more! 

12 December — KIA TIPU O NGAA WAIATA: LET THE SONGS FLOURISH – Handel’s Messiah (Part One) & Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Charpentier)